Arlen Specter: “I urge my colleagues to defeat the Kennedy-Wellstone amendment.”

I cannot applaud Rutland enough, because we had a similar hearing a few years ago when Senator Arlen Specter and I were here, and that shaped a number of federal programs for the better because of what we heard from you.

Well, you are the Senate. You decide how to proceed.

I believe that if the Court were televised, there would be an understanding and an accountability.

Congressional legislation 'doesn't amount to anything if the president can say, 'My constitutional authority supersedes the statute.'